Lewis F. Linn

Lewis Fields Linn (5 November 1796-3 October 1843) was a US Senator from Missouri (D) from 25 October 1833 to 3 October 1843, succeeding Alexander Bucker and preceding David Rice Atchison.

Biography
Lewis Fields Linn was born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1796, and he was raised by his older half-brother Henry Dodge (future Wisconsin senator and governor) after his parents died. He served as a US Army surgeon during the War of 1812, and he became a medical doctor in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri during the late 1810s. In 1827, after fighting against a cholera epidemic, he was elected to the Missouri Senate, and he was elected to the US Senate in 1833 as a Democratic Party member. He served in the senate until his 1843 death at the age of 46.